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Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society 



To 



The Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society and 



Auxiliary of the Hoy al Asiatic Society in London. 



Gentlemen 1 , 



In acknowledging the receipt of your Secretary's com- 

 dated D ioth mur >i cat ion on the subject of the formation of a Museum of 

 Nov., 1813. Economic Geology at this Presidency, I am desired to inform 



The Secretary lays before the Meeting a letter from the Society's Book- 

 sellers, dated 29th February, 1844. 



Resolved, —That the following works be purchased for the Society in 

 order to complete the Society's copies. 



The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, from 

 May, 1842. 



Asiatic Researches, Volume 16th, and those published after the 18th. 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, several odd Numbers. 

 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 from No. 14. 



Resolved, — That the Athenaeum, Literary Gazette, and Examiner, be 

 kept only three days by each Member of the Committee. 



Mr. Walter Elliot in the name and at the desire of Lord Arthur Hay, 

 lays on the Table a Copy of- Wilson's and Buonoparte's Illustrations of 

 American Ornithology, in Folio, with coloured plates. By Captain 

 Thomas Brown. 



Resolved,— That the thanks of the Society be presented to Lord Arthur 

 Hay, for his munificent gift, 



